For the second time this month, a mob of teenagers has attacked innocent victims on city streets.

One man was still in the hospital Monday night, while city leaders and law enforcement still struggle to figure out how to keep teens from striking again.

If you face a mob, do you pull a gun? Hit them with your car? Lawyers say both of those could land you behind bars.

Good luck selling that argument, WREG. It is certainly possible that using a firearm or vehicle as a self-defense weapon against a mob can land you in jail.

But rational people can also intuit that a mob can easily turn deadly.

In the video above, attorney Claiborne Ferguson suggests that using your car as a weapon in self defense to drive through an attacking mob could leave you facing criminal charges…

Claiborne Ferguson says that driving through a rampaging mob would likely be illegal… but admits he’d do it anyway to save his kids.

… and then admits, “If my kids were in the car, I would have floored it.”

No one wants to use lethal force against teens who are merely committing acts of vandalism.

These teens needs to understand, however, that citizens have every right to assume that a large and lawless mob using makeshift weapons or even simply fists and feet can reasonably be considered a lethal force threat when they gang up on victims or vehicles.

It is very unlikely that a jury is going to convict a person who has a reasonable suspicion that they are just seconds away from becoming the next Reginald Denny.

The parents of these young criminals need to rein them in, before someone winds up in the hospital, or in a dark metal drawer in the morgue.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com.
Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun.
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